Prospectus Hit List for June 11

Hit List for June 8
Hit List for June 12Hit List updates are published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, starting April 2, 2014. Data presented here is based on games through the day prior to publication.Teams are ordered based on Adjusted Hit List Factor, a computer generated number, and the author isn't responsible for the order of the teams.

34

27

31.1

31.5

31.0

.523

.503

31.9%

31.9%

63.8%

8.7%

5.5%

Pablo Sandoval did fine in his first game back, but contributed to the Giants being three-hit in his second. He's obviously too out-of-shape for baseball.

2

35

25

33.0

31.5

32.7

.550

.570

24.8%

43.3%

68.1%

7.9%

7.9%

Desmond Jennings has a six-game hitting streak since returning from the disabled list. Desmond Jennings has a .266/.327/.403 line since returning from the disabled list.

3

32

27

27.8

30.2

30.6

.511

.531

41.3%

12.2%

53.5%

7.5%

12.2%

Don't look now, but Ubaldo Jimenez has allowed one walk in his past 13 2/3 innings. No, really, don't look. This will end badly.

4

35

23

33.0

35.4

34.4

.594

.575

29.9%

27.2%

57.1%

5.9%

15.7%

Bryce Harper got the day off to rest his sore back, but scored the go-ahead run in the ninth inning anyway.

5

30

30

30.3

31.9

31.6

.516

.496

8.7%

24.4%

33.1%

5.1%

13.4%

Joe Saunders is closing in on Oddibe "A Player With A Name Chris Berman Wouldn't Have Such An Easy Time With" McDowell for 11th on the all-time list of Baseball-Reference WAR for no. 12-overall draft picks. Did you know that?

6

32

29

32.9

32.7

32.3

.532

.552

8.7%

51.2%

59.8%

4.3%

5.9%

The Angels built a home-run Trumbaco with a Mark Trumbo shell and Torii Hunter filling. This sounds disgusting, but the point is that after two more homers, Trumbo's slugging percentage is up to .632.

7

32

27

27.3

24.8

24.8

.462

.442

2.8%

3.1%

5.9%

1.6%

4.7%

Jason Grilli and Juan Cruz, the surprisingly effective setup men for the Pirates, became pro ballplayers three weeks apart in 1997. The immortal Travis Harper signed halfway between their signing dates. Get him on the phone!

8

39

22

36.3

36.9

36.1

.608

.589

59.4%

20.9%

80.3%

1.6%

18.1%

The Dodgers are third in the National League in scoring despite a .228/.276/.278 line from their leadoff hitters. Told you batting order doesn't matter.

9

31

29

33.4

31.3

32.0

.532

.552

1.2%

7.1%

8.3%

1.6%

1.2%

Edwin Encarnacion, 29 years old, in his 1401st professional baseball game, played in the outfield for the first time, starting in left. Sadly, he did not make an error.

10

24

35

26.5

23.2

22.6

.408

.389

0.0%

0.8%

0.8%

0.8%

-1.2%

After in-depth study of Christian Friedrich's start against the Angels, I have decided that the best advice anyone can give him is: don't give up three homers in four innings.

11

28

32

28.3

28.0

28.5

.470

.490

13.0%

12.2%

25.2%

0.4%

-1.2%

One is a data point and two is a pattern, so Brayan Villareal is going to win every game for the Tigers for the rest of the year.

12

24

35

22.8

24.5

24.3

.405

.424

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

If you put your hand on your computer screen so that you can't see anything below Justin Morneau, the Twins lineup looks pretty good.

13

20

41

22.6

23.2

23.7

.367

.348

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Will Venable is in his fifth year of being an above-average hitter with solid defense, but this is the first time anyone has ever said his name.

14

26

35

27.3

24.6

25.4

.423

.443

0.0%

0.4%

0.4%

0.0%

0.4%

Sean Doolittle has nine strikeouts in four major-league innings. He is thus the most valuable first baseman on the A's roster.

15

20

40

24.2

24.3

24.4

.387

.368

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Starlin Castro has 10 errors on the season, eight of which came on plays when he wasn't looking at the batter and got beaned by a line drive.

16

24

34

25.7

25.8

26.1

.438

.458

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Bruce Chen may be unfazed by racism, but he got totally fazed by Andrew McCutchen, who knocked a double and a homer and stole a base.

17

26

34

27.1

25.7

26.3

.438

.418

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Does any double-play combo have a better combined on-base percentage than Jose Altuve and Jed Lowrie? The solution is left as an exercise for the reader.

18

34

25

33.7

33.5

33.1

.569

.589

63.4%

24.8%

88.2%

0.0%

13.4%

Oprah went to the Mets-Yankees game. You get a blown save! You get a blown save! EVERYBODY GETS A BLOWN SAVE.

19

27

35

29.7

28.0

28.6

.457

.477

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

-0.4%

-0.4%

Michael Saunders has been a legitimately pretty solid player. That's the good news. The bad news is that that's all it takes to lead the Mariners in WARP.

20

31

29

26.8

29.2

29.0

.484

.464

9.4%

13.0%

22.4%

-0.4%

-33.1%

There was a time in my life when I would have thought that Donovan Solano's .474 batting average in 20 plate appearances meant something. I was an idiot when I was seven.

21

35

26

37.6

40.9

40.4

.631

.650

91.3%

7.1%

98.4%

-0.8%

-0.4%

I wish Robert Ross were terrible so that we could snark snark snark about his six "wins" and zero "losses," but he has a 120 FRA+.